Adoption is finished. Fluency is not.
Adoption is finished. Fluency is not.
Two numbers from the same survey this month, 18,114 faculty across 35 countries:
77 percent of faculty use AI in their teaching, up 16 points in a year.
17 percent describe themselves as advanced or expert users.
Sixty points of daylight between holding the tool and being good with it.
And a third number that should sting a little: only 29 percent of students believe their instructor is equipped to guide them on AI. In the US and Canada, 17 percent.
Here is what I think is actually going on. That gap is not an access problem, because everyone already has access. It is not a policy problem, because most institutions have three of those. It is a practice problem, and we keep trying to fix it with the one format that research says does not work.
Darling Hammond, Hyler and Gardner reviewed effective professional development for the Learning Policy Institute in 2017. Seven elements. The seventh is sustained duration, and their language is blunt: strong programs run over weeks, months, or academic years, rather than short one off workshops.
We knew that. Then AI showed up and we booked the August in service day anyway.
So today I taught the alternative. I call it the Standing Row, because a farmer who tries to fix the whole field in one season fixes nothing. He picks one row.
Seed, week one: pick one task you repeat every single week. The boring recurring one.
Sprout, week two: run it twice on real student work. The first rep teaches you the tool, the second teaches you your judgment.
Grow, week three: write down where the reclaimed time goes before it arrives, and point it at a student.
Harvest, week four: show one colleague and record their objection.
About 105 minutes across four weeks. It runs on a free chatbot, on purpose.
The full kit with all 15 working fields is here: https://www.harvestkernel.com/standing-row-faculty-kit/
Tell me in the replies: which row would you pick, and what is currently eating the hour you would get back? I will answer every one.